A comprehensive guide for improving your writing, including contributions from David Lodge, Nell Dunn, Malcolm Bradbury, Maureen Freely and Patricia Dunker. The exercises and activities throughout encourage writers to develop their skills. Contributions from forty authors provide a generous pool of information, experience and advice. This is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want help honing work already completed. It will suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or writing groups.